Slaughter the Strong

Slaughter the Strong (Rivals of Ixalan Promos)
Randy Vargas

Each player chooses any number of creatures they control with total power 4 or less, then sacrifices all other creatures they control.

"Cut the beasts out from under them and their strength is nothing." —Vona of Iedo, Butcher of Magan

Slaughter the Strong (Rivals of Ixalan)
Randy Vargas

Each player chooses any number of creatures they control with total power 4 or less, then sacrifices all other creatures they control.

"Cut the beasts out from under them and their strength is nothing." —Vona of Iedo, Butcher of Magan

Slaughter the Strong (Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate)
Leonardo Santanna

Each player chooses any number of creatures they control with total power 4 or less, then sacrifices all other creatures they control.

It was a big day for the gravediggers at Cliffside Cemetery.

Slaughter the Strong (The List)
Randy Vargas

Each player chooses any number of creatures they control with total power 4 or less, then sacrifices all other creatures they control.

"Cut the beasts out from under them and their strength is nothing." —Vona of Iedo, Butcher of Magan

Slaughter the Strong (Commander Legends)
Randy Vargas

Each player chooses any number of creatures they control with total power 4 or less, then sacrifices all other creatures they control.

"Cut the beasts out from under them and their strength is nothing." —Vona of Iedo, Butcher of Magan

Mystic Sanctuary (Murders at Karlov Manor Commander)
Randy Vargas

({T}: Add {U}.) This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands. When this land enters untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Wild Dogs (Dominaria Remastered)
Randy Vargas

At the beginning of your upkeep, if a player has more life than each other player, the player with the most life gains control of this creature. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Gravitic Punch (Guilds of Ravnica)
Randy Vargas

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target player. Jump-start (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a card in addition to paying its other costs. Then exile this card.)

Meteoric Mace (Commander Legends)
Randy Vargas

Equipped creature gets +4/+0 and has trample. Equip {4} Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)

Flunk (Strixhaven: School of Mages)
Randy Vargas

Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is 7 minus the number of cards in that creature's controller's hand.

"I assure you, no one fails my course more than once." —Embrose, Silverquill dean

Light-Paws, Emperor's Voice (Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty)
Randy Vargas

Whenever an Aura you control enters, if you cast it, you may search your library for an Aura card with mana value less than or equal to that Aura and with a different name than each Aura you control, put that card onto the battlefield attached to Light-Paws, then shuffle.

Gavi, Nest Warden (Commander 2020)
Randy Vargas

You may pay {0} rather than pay the cycling cost of the first card you cycle each turn. Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a 2/2 red and white Dinosaur Cat creature token.

A mother's love transcends species.

Slaughter the Strong (Rivals of Ixalan Promos)
Randy Vargas

Each player chooses any number of creatures they control with total power 4 or less, then sacrifices all other creatures they control.

"Cut the beasts out from under them and their strength is nothing." —Vona of Iedo, Butcher of Magan

Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander)
Randy Vargas

Flying Whenever a player sacrifices a permanent, put a +1/+1 counter on Carmen and you gain 1 life. Whenever Carmen attacks, return up to one target permanent card with mana value less than or equal to Carmen's power from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Take Vengeance (Core Set 2019)
Randy Vargas

Destroy target tapped creature.

"Your death will be a balm, your passing a welcome revision, and all will sigh with peace to know of your demise."

Erratic Visionary (Ravnica: Clue Edition)
Randy Vargas

{1}{U}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.

An Izzet experiment begins with a "what if," gets approved with a "why not," and concludes with a "eureka!"

Burning Sun's Avatar (Ixalan Promos)
Randy Vargas

When this creature enters, it deals 3 damage to target opponent or planeswalker and 3 damage to up to one target creature.

"Tilonalli's searing rays carry the spark of life's eventual destruction as all light fades." —Chitlati, Lightning Rider

Necrotic Wound (Guilds of Ravnica)
Randy Vargas

Undergrowth — Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard. If that creature would die this turn, exile it instead.

The assassins of the Ochran distill toxins from the remains of their previous victims.

Accomplished Alchemist (Strixhaven: School of Mages)
Randy Vargas

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.

Nadier's Nightblade (Bloomburrow Commander)
Randy Vargas

Whenever a token you control leaves the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Checking around every corner doesn't help if you forget to look up.

Elite Arrester (Ravnica Allegiance)
Randy Vargas

{1}{U}, {T}: Tap target creature.

"Hold it! I need to see your papers."

Skeleton Archer (The List)
Randy Vargas

When this creature enters, it deals 1 damage to any target.

"When it comes to killing with precision, a soul is but a hindrance." —Isareth the Awakener

Lethal Sting (The List)
Randy Vargas

As an additional cost to cast this spell, put a -1/-1 counter on a creature you control. Destroy target creature.

Initiates once believed defeat was the worst fate possible—a sentiment they quickly abandoned.

Through the Breach (Ultimate Masters)
Randy Vargas

You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield. That creature gains haste. Sacrifice that creature at the beginning of the next end step. Splice onto Arcane {2}{R}{R} (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Burning Sun's Avatar (Ixalan)
Randy Vargas

When this creature enters, it deals 3 damage to target opponent or planeswalker and 3 damage to up to one target creature.

"Tilonalli's searing rays carry the spark of life's eventual destruction as all light fades." —Chitlati, Lightning Rider

Herald of Hoofbeats (March of the Machine Commander)
Randy Vargas

Horsemanship (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with horsemanship.) Other Knights you control have horsemanship.

Alert Heedbonder (Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths)
Randy Vargas

Vigilance At the beginning of your end step, you gain 1 life for each creature you control with vigilance.

Considering the zealous armies, vile poachers, and titanic monsters, it's always wise to keep one eye on the horizon.

Gavi, Nest Warden (Commander 2020 Oversized)
Randy Vargas

You may pay {0} rather than pay the cycling cost of the first card you cycle each turn. Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a 2/2 red and white Dinosaur Cat creature token.

A mother's love transcends species.

Voltage Surge (Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty)
Randy Vargas

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice an artifact. Voltage Surge deals 2 damage to target creature or planeswalker. If this spell's additional cost was paid, Voltage Surge deals 4 damage instead.

Slaughter the Strong (Rivals of Ixalan)
Randy Vargas

Each player chooses any number of creatures they control with total power 4 or less, then sacrifices all other creatures they control.

"Cut the beasts out from under them and their strength is nothing." —Vona of Iedo, Butcher of Magan

So Tiny (Throne of Eldraine)
Randy Vargas

Flash Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -2/-0. It gets -6/-0 instead as long as its controller has seven or more cards in their graveyard.

His sword sounded like a silver chime on the glass jar, and the sprite laughed with delight.

Predatory Impetus (Commander 2020)
Randy Vargas

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +3/+3, must be blocked if able, and is goaded. (It attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)

Wild Dogs (Dominaria Remastered)
Randy Vargas

At the beginning of your upkeep, if a player has more life than each other player, the player with the most life gains control of this creature. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sparkhunter Masticore (Core Set 2021)
Randy Vargas

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Protection from planeswalkers {1}: This creature deals 1 damage to target planeswalker. {3}: This creature gains indestructible until end of turn.

Primal Might (Core Set 2021)
Randy Vargas

Target creature you control gets +X/+X until end of turn. Then it fights up to one target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

The shaman looked at the world through Ghalta's eyes and understood that everything else was his prey.

Rotting Regisaur (Core Set 2020 Promos)
Randy Vargas

At the beginning of your upkeep, discard a card.

"Now, *that's* a zombie!" —Modriss of Zargoth Fen

Mirror Image (The List)
Randy Vargas

You may have this creature enter as a copy of a creature you control.

The life of a shapeshifter is one of constant change.

Primal Might (Core Set 2021 Promos)
Randy Vargas

Target creature you control gets +X/+X until end of turn. Then it fights up to one target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

The shaman looked at the world through Ghalta's eyes and understood that everything else was his prey.

Treetop Ambusher (Modern Horizons)
Randy Vargas

Dash {1}{G} (You may cast this spell for its dash cost. If you do, it gains haste, and it's returned from the battlefield to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.) Whenever this creature attacks, target creature you control gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Captain Vargus Wrath (Commander Legends)
Randy Vargas

Whenever Captain Vargus Wrath attacks, Pirates you control get +1/+1 until end of turn for each time you've cast a commander from the command zone this game.

"To be a successful cutthroat, you have to truly enjoy the work."

Bushmeat Poacher (Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths)
Randy Vargas

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice another creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness. Draw a card.

"If you've never feasted on Zagoth terror-pig, I got the best price you'll find."

Quakebringer (Kaldheim)
Randy Vargas

Your opponents can't gain life. At the beginning of your upkeep, Quakebringer deals 2 damage to each opponent. This ability triggers only if Quakebringer is on the battlefield or if Quakebringer is in your graveyard and you control a Giant. Foretell {2}{R}{R}

Take Vengeance (Game Night 2019)
Randy Vargas

Destroy target tapped creature.

"Your death will be a balm, your passing a welcome revision, and all will sigh with peace to know of your demise."

Soul Diviner (War of the Spark Promos)
Randy Vargas

{T}, Remove a counter from an artifact, creature, land, or planeswalker you control: Draw a card.

As the Eternal's cold fingers tightened around his throat, Domri realized what kind of master he had rushed to serve.

Skeleton Archer (Core Set 2021)
Randy Vargas

When this creature enters, it deals 1 damage to any target.

"Soul, flesh, even eyes—none of these are strictly necessary for deadly precision." —Modriss of Zargoth Fen

Majestic Myriarch (Commander 2020)
Randy Vargas

Majestic Myriarch's power and toughness are each equal to twice the number of creatures you control. At the beginning of each combat, this creature gains flying until end of turn if you control a creature with flying. The same is true for first strike, double strike, deathtouch, haste, hexproof, indestructible, lifelink, menace, reach, trample, and vigilance.

Bushmeat Poacher (Game Night: Free-for-All)
Randy Vargas

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice another creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness. Draw a card.

"If you've never feasted on Zagoth terror-pig, I got the best price you'll find."

Unlikely Aid (Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths)
Randy Vargas

Target creature gets +2/+0 and gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

"I appreciate you not letting me fall to my death in the acid bogs. Now, can you let me down?"

Zealous Conscripts (Tales of Middle-earth Commander)
Randy Vargas

Haste When this creature enters, gain control of target permanent until end of turn. Untap that permanent. It gains haste until end of turn.

Buckler and corslet, axe and sword, And shining spears were laid in hoard.

Invigorating Surge (The List)
Randy Vargas

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control, then double the number of +1/+1 counters on that creature.

For hydras, most problems can be solved with the addition of a few extra heads.

Speaker of the Heavens (The List)
Randy Vargas

Vigilance, lifelink (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap. Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) {T}: Create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying. Activate only if you have at least 7 life more than your starting life total and only as a sorcery.

"All are welcome in the angels' light."

Survivors' Bond (Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths)
Randy Vargas

Choose one or both — • Return target Human creature card from your graveyard to your hand. • Return target non-Human creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

"And what did we learn? Never taunt a porcuparrot!"

Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive (Dominaria Promos)
Randy Vargas

Creatures you control with power or toughness 1 or less can't be blocked.

"My ancestor Toshiro used to say, 'Life is a series of choices between bad and worse.' I'm a master of making great bad choices."

Not Dead After All (Wilds of Eldraine)
Randy Vargas

Until end of turn, target creature you control gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control, then create a Wicked Role token attached to it." (Enchanted creature gets +1/+1. When this token is put into a graveyard, each opponent loses 1 life.)

Bedeck (Ravnica Allegiance Promos)
Randy Vargas

Allosaurus Shepherd (Jumpstart)
Randy Vargas

This spell can't be countered. Green spells you control can't be countered. {4}{G}{G}: Until end of turn, each Elf creature you control has base power and toughness 5/5 and becomes a Dinosaur in addition to its other creature types.

Rotting Regisaur (Core Set 2020 Promos)
Randy Vargas

At the beginning of your upkeep, discard a card.

"Now, *that's* a zombie!" —Modriss of Zargoth Fen

Necrotic Wound (Jumpstart 2022)
Randy Vargas

Undergrowth — Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard. If that creature would die this turn, exile it instead.

The assassins of the Ochran distill toxins from the remains of their previous victims.

Sabertooth Mauler (Core Set 2021)
Randy Vargas

At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and untap it.

"I hope the idiot who introduced these creatures to the jungle was their first meal." —Opar, veteran guide

Mishra, Eminent One (The Brothers' War Commander)
Randy Vargas

At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a token that's a copy of target noncreature artifact you control, except its name is Mishra's Warform and it's a 4/4 Construct artifact creature in addition to its other types. It gains haste until end of turn. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

Rampaging Geoderm (March of the Machine)
Randy Vargas

Trample, haste Whenever you attack, target attacking creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn. If it's attacking a battle, put a +1/+1 counter on it instead.

The Phyrexian juggernaut found itself crushed between a rock and a hard place.

Charming Prince (Throne of Eldraine Promos)
Randy Vargas

When this creature enters, choose one — • Scry 2. • You gain 3 life. • Exile another target creature you own. Return it to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step.

Ancestral Anger (Innistrad: Double Feature)
Randy Vargas

Target creature gains trample and gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is 1 plus the number of cards named Ancestral Anger in your graveyard. Draw a card.

"One vampire for every family member I've lost."

Vow of Lightning (Game Night: Free-for-All)
Randy Vargas

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2, has first strike, and can't attack you or planeswalkers you control.

"For all I have lost, for all who have fallen, I will render you to dust." —Jared Carthalion

Elenda and Azor (March of the Machine Commander)
Randy Vargas

Flying, ward {2} Whenever Elenda and Azor attacks, you may pay {X}{W}{U}{B}. If you do, draw X cards. At the beginning of each end step, you may pay 4 life. If you do, create a number of 1/1 black Vampire Knight creature tokens with lifelink equal to the number of cards you've drawn this turn.

Mascot Exhibition (Strixhaven: School of Mages)
Randy Vargas

Create a 2/1 white and black Inkling creature token with flying, a 3/2 red and white Spirit creature token, and a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token.

Force of Vigor (Modern Horizons 1 Timeshifts)
Randy Vargas

If it's not your turn, you may exile a green card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Destroy up to two target artifacts and/or enchantments.

The vines overgrew the construct, snapping gears and soaking up aether.

Channeled Force (Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths)
Randy Vargas

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard X cards. Target player draws X cards. Channeled Force deals X damage to up to one target creature or planeswalker.

Few monsters challenged Narset after they sensed her power.

Force of Vigor (The List)
Randy Vargas

If it's not your turn, you may exile a green card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Destroy up to two target artifacts and/or enchantments.

The vines overgrew the construct, snapping gears and soaking up aether.

Threats Undetected (Dominaria United Promos)
Randy Vargas

Search your library for up to four creature cards with different powers and reveal them. An opponent chooses two of those cards. Shuffle the chosen cards into your library and put the rest into your hand.

Nadier's Nightblade (Commander Legends)
Randy Vargas

Whenever a token you control leaves the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Checking around every corner doesn't help if you forget to look up.

Grand Abolisher (Secret Lair Drop)
Randy Vargas

During your turn, your opponents can't cast spells or activate abilities of artifacts, creatures, or enchantments.

"Journey..."

Predatory Impetus (Ravnica: Clue Edition)
Randy Vargas

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +3/+3, must be blocked if able, and is goaded. (It attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)

Embereth Paladin (Throne of Eldraine)
Randy Vargas

Haste Adamant — If at least three red mana was spent to cast this spell, this creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it.

"The king would die for the realm. I would not hesitate to do the same for him."

Danitha, New Benalia's Light (March of the Machine: The Aftermath)
Randy Vargas

Vigilance, trample, lifelink Once during each of your turns, you may cast an Aura or Equipment spell from your graveyard.

Turntimber Symbiosis (Zendikar Rising)
Randy Vargas

Invigorating Surge (Core Set 2021)
Randy Vargas

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control, then double the number of +1/+1 counters on that creature.

For hydras, most problems can be solved with the addition of a few extra heads.

Elvish Dreadlord (Commander Legends)
Randy Vargas

Deathtouch When this creature dies, non-Elf creatures get -3/-3 until end of turn. Encore {5}{B}{B} ({5}{B}{B}, Exile this card from your graveyard: For each opponent, create a token copy that attacks that opponent this turn if able. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.)

Narset, Jeskai Waymaster (Tarkir: Dragonstorm)
Randy Vargas

At the beginning of your end step, you may discard your hand. If you do, draw cards equal to the number of spells you've cast this turn.

"Each step we take is a decision that changes the course of our futures. We must be careful where we tread."

Fierce Guardianship (Commander 2020)
Randy Vargas

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Counter target noncreature spell.

"Hunt somewhere else. This is your only warning." —Gavi, nest warden

Monk Class (Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Promos)
Randy Vargas

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) The second spell you cast each turn costs {1} less to cast. {W}{U}: Level 2 When this Class becomes level 2, return up to one target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. {1}{W}{U}: Level 3 At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of your library. For as long as it remains exiled, it has "You may cast this card from exile as long as you've cast another spell this turn."

Ancestral Anger (Foundations Jumpstart)
Randy Vargas

Target creature gains trample and gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is 1 plus the number of cards named Ancestral Anger in your graveyard. Draw a card.

Light-Paws, Emperor's Voice (Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Promos)
Randy Vargas

Whenever an Aura you control enters, if you cast it, you may search your library for an Aura card with mana value less than or equal to that Aura and with a different name than each Aura you control, put that card onto the battlefield attached to Light-Paws, then shuffle.

Charming Prince (Throne of Eldraine Promos)
Randy Vargas

When this creature enters, choose one — • Scry 2. • You gain 3 life. • Exile another target creature you own. Return it to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step.

Bounty Agent (Guilds of Ravnica)
Randy Vargas

Vigilance {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target legendary permanent that's an artifact, creature, or enchantment.

"Lately I've seen the biggest bounties of my career—and for the biggest names."

Shakedown Heavy (Streets of New Capenna Promos)
Randy Vargas

Menace Whenever this creature attacks, defending player may have you draw a card. If they do, untap this creature and remove it from combat.

"Look, we both get what we want. I get your Halo. You get to keep your kneecaps."

Skemfar Avenger (Kaldheim Promos)
Randy Vargas

Whenever another nontoken Elf or Berserker you control dies, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Stripped of their divinity, the elves of Skemfar channeled their rage and sorrow into bloody brutality.

Shakedown Heavy (Streets of New Capenna)
Randy Vargas

Menace Whenever this creature attacks, defending player may have you draw a card. If they do, untap this creature and remove it from combat.

"Look, we both get what we want. I get your Halo. You get to keep your kneecaps."

Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander)
Randy Vargas

Flying Whenever a player sacrifices a permanent, put a +1/+1 counter on Carmen and you gain 1 life. Whenever Carmen attacks, return up to one target permanent card with mana value less than or equal to Carmen's power from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Allosaurus Shepherd (Double Masters 2022)
Randy Vargas

This spell can't be countered. Green spells you control can't be countered. {4}{G}{G}: Until end of turn, each Elf creature you control has base power and toughness 5/5 and becomes a Dinosaur in addition to its other creature types.

Sparkhunter Masticore (Core Set 2021 Promos)
Randy Vargas

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Protection from planeswalkers {1}: This creature deals 1 damage to target planeswalker. {3}: This creature gains indestructible until end of turn.

Primal Might (Foundations)
Randy Vargas

Target creature you control gets +X/+X until end of turn. Then it fights up to one target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

The shaman looked at the world through Ghalta's eyes and understood that everything else was his prey.

Woodland Champion (Foundations Jumpstart)
Randy Vargas

Whenever one or more tokens you control enter, put that many +1/+1 counters on this creature.

"Every footfall on the forest floor is a heartbeat sending strength into my veins."

Urban Daggertooth (Modern Horizons 2)
Randy Vargas

Vigilance Enrage — Whenever this creature is dealt damage, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Stop, smell the roses, eat the peoples.

Sparkhunter Masticore (Core Set 2021 Promos)
Randy Vargas

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Protection from planeswalkers {1}: This creature deals 1 damage to target planeswalker. {3}: This creature gains indestructible until end of turn.

Charming Prince (Throne of Eldraine)
Randy Vargas

When this creature enters, choose one — • Scry 2. • You gain 3 life. • Exile another target creature you own. Return it to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step.

Grimdancer (Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths)
Randy Vargas

This creature enters with your choice of two different counters on it from among menace, deathtouch, and lifelink.

Most monsters are more frightening when they skitter unseen in the dark. Most.

Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive (Bloomburrow Commander)
Randy Vargas

Creatures you control with power or toughness 1 or less can't be blocked.

"My ancestor Toshiro used to say, 'Life is a series of choices between bad and worse.' I'm a master of making great bad choices."

Grimdancer (The List)
Randy Vargas

This creature enters with your choice of two different counters on it from among menace, deathtouch, and lifelink.

Most monsters are more frightening when they skitter unseen in the dark. Most.

Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive (Dominaria)
Randy Vargas

Creatures you control with power or toughness 1 or less can't be blocked.

"My ancestor Toshiro used to say, 'Life is a series of choices between bad and worse.' I'm a master of making great bad choices."

Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive (Commander Masters)
Randy Vargas

Creatures you control with power or toughness 1 or less can't be blocked.

"My ancestor Toshiro used to say, 'Life is a series of choices between bad and worse.' I'm a master of making great bad choices."

Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive (March of the Machine Commander)
Randy Vargas

Creatures you control with power or toughness 1 or less can't be blocked.

"My ancestor Toshiro used to say, 'Life is a series of choices between bad and worse.' I'm a master of making great bad choices."

Tome Raider (Throne of Eldraine)
Randy Vargas

Flying When this creature enters, draw a card.

"Humans are so forgetful. Every page I steal becomes a secret they can't remember."

Charming Prince (Foundations)
Randy Vargas

When this creature enters, choose one — • Scry 2. • You gain 3 life. • Exile another target creature you own. Return it to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step.

Rhoda, Geist Avenger (Crimson Vow Commander)
Randy Vargas

Partner with Timin, Youthful Geist (When this creature enters, target player may put Timin into their hand from their library, then shuffle.) Vigilance Whenever a creature an opponent controls becomes tapped, if it isn't being declared as an attacker, put a +1/+1 counter on Rhoda.

Skeleton Archer (Core Set 2019)
Randy Vargas

When this creature enters, it deals 1 damage to any target.

"When it comes to killing with precision, a soul is but a hindrance." —Isareth the Awakener

Mystic Sanctuary (Mystery Booster 2)
Randy Vargas

({T}: Add {U}.) This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands. When this land enters untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Elenda and Azor (March of the Machine Commander)
Randy Vargas

Flying, ward {2} Whenever Elenda and Azor attacks, you may pay {X}{W}{U}{B}. If you do, draw X cards. At the beginning of each end step, you may pay 4 life. If you do, create a number of 1/1 black Vampire Knight creature tokens with lifelink equal to the number of cards you've drawn this turn.

Krav, the Unredeemed (Battlebond)
Randy Vargas

Partner with Regna, the Redeemer (When this creature enters, target player may put Regna into their hand from their library, then shuffle.) {B}, Sacrifice X creatures: Target player draws X cards and gains X life. Put X +1/+1 counters on Krav.

Mystic Sanctuary (Time Spiral Remastered)
Randy Vargas

({T}: Add {U}.) This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands. When this land enters untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Old Gnawbone (Adventures in the Forgotten Realms)
Randy Vargas

Flying Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, create that many Treasure tokens.

Tale's End (Core Set 2020 Promos)
Randy Vargas

Counter target activated ability, triggered ability, or legendary spell.

"When you are gone, will anyone remember your story?" —Unknown

Meteoric Mace (Commander Masters)
Randy Vargas

Equipped creature gets +4/+0 and has trample. Equip {4} Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)

Silundi Vision (Zendikar Rising)
Randy Vargas

Manifold Mouse (Bloomburrow)
Randy Vargas

Offspring {2} (You may pay an additional {2} as you cast this spell. If you do, when this creature enters, create a 1/1 token copy of it.) At the beginning of combat on your turn, target Mouse you control gains your choice of double strike or trample until end of turn.

Regna, the Redeemer (Battlebond)
Randy Vargas

Partner with Krav, the Unredeemed (When this creature enters, target player may put Krav into their hand from their library, then shuffle.) Flying At the beginning of each end step, if your team gained life this turn, create two 1/1 white Warrior creature tokens.

Through the Breach (Innistrad Remastered)
Randy Vargas

You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield. That creature gains haste. Sacrifice that creature at the beginning of the next end step. Splice onto Arcane {2}{R}{R} (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Basic Conjuration (Strixhaven: School of Mages)
Randy Vargas

Look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. You gain 3 life.

Majestic Myriarch (Hour of Devastation)
Randy Vargas

Majestic Myriarch's power and toughness are each equal to twice the number of creatures you control. At the beginning of each combat, this creature gains flying until end of turn if you control a creature with flying. The same is true for first strike, double strike, deathtouch, haste, hexproof, indestructible, lifelink, menace, reach, trample, and vigilance.

Ninja of the Deep Hours (Foundations Jumpstart)
Randy Vargas

Ninjutsu {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.) Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.

Coercive Recruiter (Commander Legends)
Randy Vargas

Whenever this creature or another Pirate you control enters, gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. Until end of turn, it gains haste and becomes a Pirate in addition to its other types.

"Choose, vampire: our hat on your head, or no hat, no head."

Frilled Mystic (Ravnica Allegiance)
Randy Vargas

Flash When this creature enters, you may counter target spell.

"Your arrival was expected...and unwelcome."

Akroma, Angel of Fury (Secret Lair Drop)
Randy Vargas

This spell can't be countered. Flying, trample, protection from white and from blue {R}: Akroma gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Morph {3}{R}{R}{R} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Colossal Majesty (Forgotten Realms Commander)
Randy Vargas

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control a creature with power 4 or greater, draw a card.

"Might doesn't just build empires. It protects them." —Inti, Sun Empire knight

Gravitic Punch (The List)
Randy Vargas

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target player. Jump-start (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a card in addition to paying its other costs. Then exile this card.)

Speaker of the Heavens (Core Set 2021)
Randy Vargas

Vigilance, lifelink (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap. Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) {T}: Create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying. Activate only if you have at least 7 life more than your starting life total and only as a sorcery.

"All are welcome in the angels' light."

Rotting Regisaur (The List)
Randy Vargas

At the beginning of your upkeep, discard a card.

"Now, *that's* a zombie!" —Modriss of Zargoth Fen

Relive the Past (Murders at Karlov Manor)
Randy Vargas

Return up to one target artifact card, up to one target land card, and up to one target non-Aura enchantment card from your graveyard to the battlefield. They are 5/5 Elemental creatures in addition to their other types.

"Many have tried to subjugate Ravnica. All have failed. All will fail." —Museum of Ravnican History

Tamiyo's Notebook (Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Tokens)
Randy Vargas

Spells you cast cost {2} less to cast. {T}: Draw a card.

First-Sphere Gargantua (Modern Horizons)
Randy Vargas

When this creature enters, you draw a card and you lose 1 life. Unearth {2}{B} ({2}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Rotting Regisaur (Core Set 2020)
Randy Vargas

At the beginning of your upkeep, discard a card.

"Now, *that's* a zombie!" —Modriss of Zargoth Fen

Unbreakable Bond (Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths)
Randy Vargas

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a lifelink counter on it.

From now until the crystals stop glowing —Ketria oath meaning "forever"

Haunting Voyage (Kaldheim)
Randy Vargas

Choose a creature type. Return up to two creature cards of that type from your graveyard to the battlefield. If this spell was foretold, return all creature cards of that type from your graveyard to the battlefield instead. Foretell {5}{B}{B} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Deadly Brew (Strixhaven: School of Mages)
Randy Vargas

Each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice. If you sacrificed a permanent this way, you may return another permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.

No one ever asked what was in Dina's concoctions, so long as they worked.

Runic Armasaur (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander)
Randy Vargas

Whenever an opponent activates an ability of a creature or land that isn't a mana ability, you may draw a card.

The Sun Empire's most sacred sites are protected by more than prayers.

Shrouded Shepherd (Wilds of Eldraine)
Randy Vargas

Heroic Intervention (Forgotten Realms Commander)
Randy Vargas

Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

"Stay close, and their wrathful flames will not harm you." —Galea

Tome Raider (The List)
Randy Vargas

Flying When this creature enters, draw a card.

"Humans are so forgetful. Every page I steal becomes a secret they can't remember."

Deadly Brew (Foundations)
Randy Vargas

Each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice. If you sacrificed a permanent this way, you may return another permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.

No one ever asked what was in Dina's concoctions, so long as they worked.

Vow of Lightning (Commander Legends)
Randy Vargas

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2, has first strike, and can't attack you or planeswalkers you control.

"For all I have lost, for all who have fallen, I will render you to dust." —Jared Carthalion

Hurkyl, Master Wizard (The Brothers' War)
Randy Vargas

At the beginning of your end step, if you've cast a noncreature spell this turn, reveal the top five cards of your library. For each card type among noncreature spells you've cast this turn, you may put a card of that type from among the revealed cards into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Bedeck (Ravnica Allegiance)
Randy Vargas

Manifold Mouse (Bloomburrow Promos)
Randy Vargas

Offspring {2} (You may pay an additional {2} as you cast this spell. If you do, when this creature enters, create a 1/1 token copy of it.) At the beginning of combat on your turn, target Mouse you control gains your choice of double strike or trample until end of turn.

Season of Growth (Core Set 2020)
Randy Vargas

Whenever a creature you control enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) Whenever you cast a spell that targets a creature you control, draw a card.

"Awake, and lift your faces to the sun."

Regna, the Redeemer (Battlebond Promos)
Randy Vargas

Partner with Krav, the Unredeemed (When this creature enters, target player may put Krav into their hand from their library, then shuffle.) Flying At the beginning of each end step, if your team gained life this turn, create two 1/1 white Warrior creature tokens.

Ancestral Anger (Innistrad Remastered)
Randy Vargas

Target creature gains trample and gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is 1 plus the number of cards named Ancestral Anger in your graveyard. Draw a card.

"One vampire for every family member I've lost."

Outland Liberator (Innistrad: Double Feature)
Randy Vargas

Frenzied Goblin (Jumpstart 2022)
Randy Vargas

Whenever this creature attacks, you may pay {R}. If you do, target creature can't block this turn.

The upside to not thinking about the consequences is that you'll always surprise those who do.

Seeker of Sunlight (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan)
Randy Vargas

{2}{G}: This creature explores. Activate only as a sorcery. (Reveal the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand if it's a land. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)

"We weren't fleeing a broken world. We were running toward paradise!"

Take Vengeance (Core Set 2020)
Randy Vargas

Destroy target tapped creature.

"Your death will be a balm, your passing a welcome revision, and all will sigh with peace to know of your demise."

Outland Liberator (Innistrad: Midnight Hunt)
Randy Vargas

Nadier's Nightblade (Commander Masters)
Randy Vargas

Whenever a token you control leaves the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Checking around every corner doesn't help if you forget to look up.

Thrashing Brontodon (Foundations Jumpstart)
Randy Vargas

{1}, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

"I suppose we'll just hope those ancient monoliths lost to our people for centuries weren't particularly important." —Toxayac, Sun Empire historian

Fierce Guardianship (Commander Masters)
Randy Vargas

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Counter target noncreature spell.

"Hunt somewhere else. This is your only warning." —Gavi, nest warden

Rhoda, Geist Avenger (Crimson Vow Commander)
Randy Vargas

Partner with Timin, Youthful Geist (When this creature enters, target player may put Timin into their hand from their library, then shuffle.) Vigilance Whenever a creature an opponent controls becomes tapped, if it isn't being declared as an attacker, put a +1/+1 counter on Rhoda.

Accomplished Alchemist (Strixhaven: School of Mages Promos)
Randy Vargas

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.

"Tincture of murkroot and lizard feet? Simple. One that doesn't taste like murkroot and lizard feet? I'm working on it."

Bounty Agent (Commander 2020)
Randy Vargas

Vigilance {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target legendary permanent that's an artifact, creature, or enchantment.

"Lately I've seen the biggest bounties of my career—and for the biggest names."

Accomplished Alchemist (Strixhaven: School of Mages Promos)
Randy Vargas

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.

"Tincture of murkroot and lizard feet? Simple. One that doesn't taste like murkroot and lizard feet? I'm working on it."

Basic Conjuration (Strixhaven: School of Mages)
Randy Vargas

Look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. You gain 3 life.

"I made that! It's mine! Did you see that?"

Invigorating Surge (Foundations Jumpstart)
Randy Vargas

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control, then double the number of +1/+1 counters on that creature.

For hydras, most problems can be solved with the addition of a few extra heads.

Hurkyl, Master Wizard (The Brothers' War)
Randy Vargas

At the beginning of your end step, if you've cast a noncreature spell this turn, reveal the top five cards of your library. For each card type among noncreature spells you've cast this turn, you may put a card of that type from among the revealed cards into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Shakedown Heavy (Streets of New Capenna)
Randy Vargas

Menace Whenever this creature attacks, defending player may have you draw a card. If they do, untap this creature and remove it from combat.

Tale's End (Core Set 2020)
Randy Vargas

Counter target activated ability, triggered ability, or legendary spell.

"When you are gone, will anyone remember your story?" —Unknown

Soul Diviner (War of the Spark)
Randy Vargas

{T}, Remove a counter from an artifact, creature, land, or planeswalker you control: Draw a card.

As the Eternal's cold fingers tightened around his throat, Domri realized what kind of master he had rushed to serve.

Monk Class (Adventures in the Forgotten Realms)
Randy Vargas

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) The second spell you cast each turn costs {1} less to cast. {W}{U}: Level 2 When this Class becomes level 2, return up to one target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. {1}{W}{U}: Level 3 At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of your library. For as long as it remains exiled, it has "You may cast this card from exile as long as you've cast another spell this turn."

Kangee's Lieutenant (Starter Commander Decks)
Randy Vargas

Flying Whenever this creature attacks, attacking creatures with flying get +1/+1 until end of turn. Encore {5}{W} ({5}{W}, Exile this card from your graveyard: For each opponent, create a token copy that attacks that opponent this turn if able. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.)

Vow of Lightning (Murders at Karlov Manor Commander)
Randy Vargas

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2, has first strike, and can't attack you or planeswalkers you control.

"For all I have lost, for all who have fallen, I will render you to dust." —Jared Carthalion

Speaker of the Heavens (Core Set 2021 Promos)
Randy Vargas

Vigilance, lifelink (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap. Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) {T}: Create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying. Activate only if you have at least 7 life more than your starting life total and only as a sorcery.

"All are welcome in the angels' light."

Raise the Draugr (Kaldheim)
Randy Vargas

Choose one — • Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. • Return two target creature cards that share a creature type from your graveyard to your hand.

"King Narfi calls. We go to war!"

Frilled Mystic (Secret Lair Drop)
Randy Vargas

Flash When this creature enters, you may counter target spell.

"Your arrival was expected...and unwelcome."

Turntimber Symbiosis (Zendikar Rising)
Randy Vargas

Turntimber Symbiosis (Zendikar Rising Promos)
Randy Vargas

Apprentice Necromancer (Ultimate Masters)
Randy Vargas

{B}, {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste. At the beginning of the next end step, sacrifice it.

A mage willing to dedicate his life to his craft.

Apprentice Necromancer (The List)
Randy Vargas

{B}, {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste. At the beginning of the next end step, sacrifice it.

A mage willing to dedicate his life to his craft.

Timin, Youthful Geist (Crimson Vow Commander)
Randy Vargas

Partner with Rhoda, Geist Avenger (When this creature enters, target player may put Rhoda into their hand from their library, then shuffle.) Flying At the beginning of each combat, tap up to one target creature.

Runic Armasaur (Core Set 2019)
Randy Vargas

Whenever an opponent activates an ability of a creature or land that isn't a mana ability, you may draw a card.

The Sun Empire's most sacred sites are protected by more than prayers.

Simian Simulacrum (The Brothers' War)
Randy Vargas

When this creature enters, put two +1/+1 counters on target creature you control. Unearth {2}{G}{G} ({2}{G}{G}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Moderation (Modern Horizons 2)
Randy Vargas

You can't cast more than one spell each turn. Whenever you cast a spell, draw a card.

Intent: This card prevents you from casting multiple spells per turn but rewards you for your restraint.

Herald of Hoofbeats (March of the Machine Commander)
Randy Vargas

Horsemanship (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with horsemanship.) Other Knights you control have horsemanship.

Most dismissed her love of horses as a passing childhood fancy. Years later it saved their lives.

Skeleton Archer (Double Masters 2022)
Randy Vargas

When this creature enters, it deals 1 damage to any target.

"Soul, flesh, even eyes—none of these are strictly necessary for deadly precision." —Modriss of Zargoth Fen

Yarok's Wavecrasher (Core Set 2020)
Randy Vargas

When this creature enters, return another creature you control to its owner's hand.

"Yarok's waters rush and rage Where armies bled into the sand." —*Lament for Bala Ged*, stanza 2

Relive the Past (Murders at Karlov Manor Promos)
Randy Vargas

Return up to one target artifact card, up to one target land card, and up to one target non-Aura enchantment card from your graveyard to the battlefield. They are 5/5 Elemental creatures in addition to their other types.

"Many have tried to subjugate Ravnica. All have failed. All will fail." —Museum of Ravnican History

Coercive Recruiter (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander)
Randy Vargas

Whenever this creature or another Pirate you control enters, gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. Until end of turn, it gains haste and becomes a Pirate in addition to its other types.

"Choose, vampire: our hat on your head, or no hat, no head."

Mystic Sanctuary (Throne of Eldraine)
Randy Vargas

({T}: Add {U}.) This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands. When this land enters untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Runic Armasaur (Core Set 2019 Promos)
Randy Vargas

Whenever an opponent activates an ability of a creature or land that isn't a mana ability, you may draw a card.

The Sun Empire's most sacred sites are protected by more than prayers.

Freelance Muscle (Streets of New Capenna)
Randy Vargas

Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, it gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the greatest power and/or toughness among other creatures you control.

He never asks why. Just who, when, and where.

Primal Might (Core Set 2021 Promos)
Randy Vargas

Target creature you control gets +X/+X until end of turn. Then it fights up to one target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

The shaman looked at the world through Ghalta's eyes and understood that everything else was his prey.

Chandra, Hope's Beacon (March of the Machine)
Randy Vargas

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, copy it. You may choose new targets for the copy. This ability triggers only once each turn. +2: Add two mana in any combination of colors. +1: Exile the top five cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may cast an instant or sorcery spell from among those exiled cards. −X: Chandra deals X damage to each of up to two targets.

Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive (The List)
Randy Vargas

Creatures you control with power or toughness 1 or less can't be blocked.

"My ancestor Toshiro used to say, 'Life is a series of choices between bad and worse.' I'm a master of making great bad choices."

Kangee's Lieutenant (Commander Legends)
Randy Vargas

Flying Whenever this creature attacks, attacking creatures with flying get +1/+1 until end of turn. Encore {5}{W} ({5}{W}, Exile this card from your graveyard: For each opponent, create a token copy that attacks that opponent this turn if able. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.)

Ancestral Anger (Innistrad Remastered)
Randy Vargas

Target creature gains trample and gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is 1 plus the number of cards named Ancestral Anger in your graveyard. Draw a card.

"One vampire for every family member I've lost."

Bedeck (Ravnica Remastered)
Randy Vargas

Hurkyl, Master Wizard (The Brothers' War Promos)
Randy Vargas

At the beginning of your end step, if you've cast a noncreature spell this turn, reveal the top five cards of your library. For each card type among noncreature spells you've cast this turn, you may put a card of that type from among the revealed cards into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Threats Undetected (Dominaria United Promos)
Randy Vargas

Search your library for up to four creature cards with different powers and reveal them. An opponent chooses two of those cards. Shuffle the chosen cards into your library and put the rest into your hand.

Manifold Mouse (Bloomburrow Promos)
Randy Vargas

Offspring {2} (You may pay an additional {2} as you cast this spell. If you do, when this creature enters, create a 1/1 token copy of it.) At the beginning of combat on your turn, target Mouse you control gains your choice of double strike or trample until end of turn.

Necrotic Wound (Guilds of Ravnica Promos)
Randy Vargas

Undergrowth — Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard. If that creature would die this turn, exile it instead.

The assassins of the Ochran distill toxins from the remains of their previous victims.

Jet Medallion (Secret Lair Drop)
Randy Vargas

Black spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Skemfar Avenger (Kaldheim Promos)
Randy Vargas

Whenever another nontoken Elf or Berserker you control dies, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Stripped of their divinity, the elves of Skemfar channeled their rage and sorrow into bloody brutality.

Basic Conjuration (Strixhaven: School of Mages Promos)
Randy Vargas

Look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. You gain 3 life.

"I made that! It's mine! Did you see that?"

Selfless Savior (Secret Lair Drop)
Randy Vargas

Sacrifice this creature: Another target creature you control gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

"I never had the chance to say 'thank you.' Or 'goodbye.'" —Sarvag, eulogy for a friend

Moderation (Modern Horizons 2)
Randy Vargas

You can't cast more than one spell each turn. Whenever you cast a spell, draw a card.

"Good things come to those who are judicious in their appetites." —*The Book of Bruna*

Yarok's Wavecrasher (Foundations Jumpstart)
Randy Vargas

When this creature enters, return another creature you control to its owner's hand.

"Yarok's waters rush and rage Where armies bled into the sand." —*Lament for Bala Ged*, stanza 2

Slaughter the Strong (The List)
Randy Vargas

Each player chooses any number of creatures they control with total power 4 or less, then sacrifices all other creatures they control.

"Cut the beasts out from under them and their strength is nothing." —Vona of Iedo, Butcher of Magan

Ragefire (Ravnica Allegiance)
Randy Vargas

Ragefire deals 3 damage to target creature.

"Your precious laws can't save you now!"

Marit Lage's Slumber (Jumpstart 2022)
Randy Vargas

Whenever Marit Lage's Slumber or another snow permanent you control enters, scry 1. At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control ten or more snow permanents, sacrifice Marit Lage's Slumber. If you do, create Marit Lage, a legendary 20/20 black Avatar creature token with flying and indestructible.

Krav, the Unredeemed (Battlebond Promos)
Randy Vargas

Partner with Regna, the Redeemer (When this creature enters, target player may put Regna into their hand from their library, then shuffle.) {B}, Sacrifice X creatures: Target player draws X cards and gains X life. Put X +1/+1 counters on Krav.

Threats Undetected (Dominaria United)
Randy Vargas

Search your library for up to four creature cards with different powers and reveal them. An opponent chooses two of those cards. Shuffle the chosen cards into your library and put the rest into your hand.

Mascot Exhibition (Strixhaven: School of Mages Promos)
Randy Vargas

Create a 2/1 white and black Inkling creature token with flying, a 3/2 red and white Spirit creature token, and a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token.

"Don't just win the game. Win the crowd." —Moriana, Mage Tower coach

Danitha, New Benalia's Light (March of the Machine: The Aftermath)
Randy Vargas

Vigilance, trample, lifelink Once during each of your turns, you may cast an Aura or Equipment spell from your graveyard.

Danitha had spent her whole life preparing to lead House Capashen, but she mourned that the opportunity had come so soon.

Woodland Champion (Core Set 2020)
Randy Vargas

Whenever one or more tokens you control enter, put that many +1/+1 counters on this creature.

"Every footfall on the forest floor is a heartbeat sending strength into my veins."

Simian Simulacrum (The Brothers' War Promos)
Randy Vargas

When this creature enters, put two +1/+1 counters on target creature you control. Unearth {2}{G}{G} ({2}{G}{G}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Accomplished Alchemist (Strixhaven: School of Mages)
Randy Vargas

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.

"Tincture of murkroot and lizard feet? Simple. One that doesn't taste like murkroot and lizard feet? I'm working on it."

Eyeblight Cullers (Kaldheim Commander)
Randy Vargas

When this creature dies, create three 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature tokens, then mill three cards. (Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)

"As long as eyeblights exist, the hunt will never end." —Miara, Thorn of the Glade

Jaded Sell-Sword (Adventures in the Forgotten Realms)
Randy Vargas

When this creature enters, if mana from a Treasure was spent to cast it, it gains first strike and haste until end of turn.

"Today? That'll cost you extra."

Selfless Savior (Secret Lair Drop)
Randy Vargas

Sacrifice this creature: Another target creature you control gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

"I never had the chance to say 'thank you.' Or 'goodbye.'" —Sarvag, eulogy for a friend

Radha, Coalition Warlord (Dominaria United)
Randy Vargas

Domain — Whenever Radha becomes tapped, another target creature you control gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of basic land types among lands you control.

"Enough warm-up. I'm coming for you, Sheoldred!"

Faerie Dreamthief (Wilds of Eldraine)
Randy Vargas

Flying When this creature enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.) {2}{B}, Exile this card from your graveyard: You draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Hound Tamer (Innistrad: Midnight Hunt)
Randy Vargas

Marit Lage's Slumber (Modern Horizons)
Randy Vargas

Whenever Marit Lage's Slumber or another snow permanent you control enters, scry 1. At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control ten or more snow permanents, sacrifice Marit Lage's Slumber. If you do, create Marit Lage, a legendary 20/20 black Avatar creature token with flying and indestructible.

Danse Macabre (Forgotten Realms Commander)
Randy Vargas

Each player sacrifices a nontoken creature of their choice. Roll a d20 and add the toughness of the creature you sacrificed this way. 1—14 | Return a creature card put into a graveyard this way to the battlefield under your control. 15+ | Return up to two creature cards put into graveyards this way to the battlefield under your control.

Mishra, Eminent One (The Brothers' War Commander)
Randy Vargas

At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a token that's a copy of target noncreature artifact you control, except its name is Mishra's Warform and it's a 4/4 Construct artifact creature in addition to its other types. It gains haste until end of turn. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

Hunt for Specimens (Strixhaven: School of Mages)
Randy Vargas

Create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life." Learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.)

Eyeblight Cullers (Commander Legends)
Randy Vargas

When this creature dies, create three 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature tokens, then mill three cards. (Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)

"As long as eyeblights exist, the hunt will never end." —Miara, Thorn of the Glade

Bogardan Dragonheart (Jumpstart 2022)
Randy Vargas

Sacrifice another creature: Until end of turn, this creature becomes a Dragon with base power and toughness 4/4, flying, and haste.

A hunger to soar must be sated.

Majestic Myriarch (Hour of Devastation Promos)
Randy Vargas

Majestic Myriarch's power and toughness are each equal to twice the number of creatures you control. At the beginning of each combat, this creature gains flying until end of turn if you control a creature with flying. The same is true for first strike, double strike, deathtouch, haste, hexproof, indestructible, lifelink, menace, reach, trample, and vigilance.

Elvish Fury (The List)
Randy Vargas

Buyback {4} (You may pay an additional {4} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Fail to respect the forest and you will fertilize it.

Slaughter the Strong (Commander Legends)
Randy Vargas

Each player chooses any number of creatures they control with total power 4 or less, then sacrifices all other creatures they control.

"Cut the beasts out from under them and their strength is nothing." —Vona of Iedo, Butcher of Magan

Huatli's Snubhorn (Ixalan)
Randy Vargas

Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.)

Don't make the mistake of thinking blunt horns can't kill.

Frenzied Goblin (Masters 25)
Randy Vargas

Whenever this creature attacks, you may pay {R}. If you do, target creature can't block this turn.

The upside to not thinking about the consequences is that you'll always surprise those who do.

Basic Conjuration (Strixhaven: School of Mages Promos)
Randy Vargas

Look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. You gain 3 life.

"I made that! It's mine! Did you see that?"

Charming Prince (The List)
Randy Vargas

When this creature enters, choose one — • Scry 2. • You gain 3 life. • Exile another target creature you own. Return it to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step.

Goryo's Vengeance (Ultimate Masters)
Randy Vargas

Return target legendary creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. Splice onto Arcane {2}{B} (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

First-Sphere Gargantua (The List)
Randy Vargas

When this creature enters, you draw a card and you lose 1 life. Unearth {2}{B} ({2}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Necrotic Wound (Foundations Jumpstart)
Randy Vargas

Undergrowth — Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard. If that creature would die this turn, exile it instead.

The assassins of the Ochran distill toxins from the remains of their previous victims.

Skeleton Archer (Foundations)
Randy Vargas

When this creature enters, it deals 1 damage to any target.

"Soul, flesh, even eyes—none of these are strictly necessary for deadly precision." —Modriss of Zargoth Fen

Simian Simulacrum (The Brothers' War)
Randy Vargas

When this creature enters, put two +1/+1 counters on target creature you control. Unearth {2}{G}{G} ({2}{G}{G}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Timin, Youthful Geist (Crimson Vow Commander)
Randy Vargas

Partner with Rhoda, Geist Avenger (When this creature enters, target player may put Rhoda into their hand from their library, then shuffle.) Flying At the beginning of each combat, tap up to one target creature.

Colossal Majesty (Core Set 2019)
Randy Vargas

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control a creature with power 4 or greater, draw a card.

"Might doesn't just build empires. It protects them." —Inti, Sun Empire knight

Scholar of New Horizons (The Brothers' War Commander)
Randy Vargas

This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it. {T}, Remove a counter from a permanent you control: Search your library for a Plains card and reveal it. If an opponent controls more lands than you, you may put that card onto the battlefield tapped. If you don't put the card onto the battlefield, put it into your hand. Then shuffle.

Speaker of the Heavens (Core Set 2021 Promos)
Randy Vargas

Vigilance, lifelink (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap. Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) {T}: Create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying. Activate only if you have at least 7 life more than your starting life total and only as a sorcery.

"All are welcome in the angels' light."

Colossal Majesty (Ravnica: Clue Edition)
Randy Vargas

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control a creature with power 4 or greater, draw a card.

"Might doesn't just build empires. It protects them." —Inti, Sun Empire knight

Mascot Exhibition (Strixhaven: School of Mages)
Randy Vargas

Create a 2/1 white and black Inkling creature token with flying, a 3/2 red and white Spirit creature token, and a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token.

"Don't just win the game. Win the crowd." —Moriana, Mage Tower coach

Moderation (Modern Horizons 2 Promos)
Randy Vargas

You can't cast more than one spell each turn. Whenever you cast a spell, draw a card.

"Good things come to those who are judicious in their appetites." —*The Book of Bruna*

Scholar of New Horizons (The Brothers' War Commander)
Randy Vargas

This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it. {T}, Remove a counter from a permanent you control: Search your library for a Plains card and reveal it. If an opponent controls more lands than you, you may put that card onto the battlefield tapped. If you don't put the card onto the battlefield, put it into your hand. Then shuffle.

Mascot Exhibition (Strixhaven: School of Mages Promos)
Randy Vargas

Create a 2/1 white and black Inkling creature token with flying, a 3/2 red and white Spirit creature token, and a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token.

"Don't just win the game. Win the crowd." —Moriana, Mage Tower coach

Skemfar Avenger (Kaldheim)
Randy Vargas

Whenever another nontoken Elf or Berserker you control dies, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Stangg, Echo Warrior (Dominaria United Commander)
Randy Vargas

Whenever Stangg attacks, create Stangg Twin, a legendary 3/4 red and green Human Warrior creature token. It enters tapped and attacking. For each Aura and Equipment attached to Stangg, create a token that's a copy of it attached to Stangg Twin. Sacrifice all tokens created this way at the beginning of the next end step.

Embereth Shieldbreaker (The List)
Randy Vargas

"Courage is the only shield I need."

Relive the Past (Murders at Karlov Manor Promos)
Randy Vargas

Return up to one target artifact card, up to one target land card, and up to one target non-Aura enchantment card from your graveyard to the battlefield. They are 5/5 Elemental creatures in addition to their other types.

"Many have tried to subjugate Ravnica. All have failed. All will fail." —Museum of Ravnican History

Tangled Florahedron (Zendikar Rising)
Randy Vargas

High-Rise Sawjack (Streets of New Capenna)
Randy Vargas

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) Whenever this creature blocks a creature with flying, this creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

Slicing girders, rescuing trapped workers, killing gigantic rust flies—one tool does it all!

Avacyn, Angel of Hope (Double Masters)
Randy Vargas

Flying, vigilance, indestructible Other permanents you control have indestructible.

Avacyn lives on in the hearts and minds of Innistrad's people.

Simian Simulacrum (The Brothers' War Promos)
Randy Vargas

When this creature enters, put two +1/+1 counters on target creature you control. Unearth {2}{G}{G} ({2}{G}{G}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Umezawa's Jitte (Secret Lair Drop)
Randy Vargas

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage, put two charge counters on Umezawa's Jitte. Remove a charge counter from Umezawa's Jitte: Choose one — • Equipped creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. • Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. • You gain 2 life. Equip {2}

Sigiled Contender (Core Set 2021)
Randy Vargas

This creature has lifelink as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it. (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

"All right. Warm-ups are over."

Meteoric Mace (Modern Horizons 3)
Randy Vargas

Equipped creature gets +4/+0 and has trample. Equip {4} Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)

Embereth Shieldbreaker (Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate)
Randy Vargas

"Courage is the only shield I need."

Shakedown Heavy (Streets of New Capenna Promos)
Randy Vargas

Menace Whenever this creature attacks, defending player may have you draw a card. If they do, untap this creature and remove it from combat.

"Look, we both get what we want. I get your Halo. You get to keep your kneecaps."

Humiliate (Strixhaven: School of Mages)
Randy Vargas

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. Put a +1/+1 counter on a creature you control.

"Aw, what's that? No comeback?"

Hound Tamer (Innistrad: Double Feature)
Randy Vargas

Saw It Coming (Kaldheim)
Randy Vargas

Counter target spell. Foretell {1}{U} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

"How predictable."

Frenzied Goblin (Ravnica: Clue Edition)
Randy Vargas

Whenever this creature attacks, you may pay {R}. If you do, target creature can't block this turn.

The upside to not thinking about the consequences is that you'll always surprise those who do.

Frilled Mystic (Ravnica Remastered)
Randy Vargas

Flash When this creature enters, you may counter target spell.

"Your arrival was expected...and unwelcome."

Coercive Recruiter (Commander Legends)
Randy Vargas

Whenever this creature or another Pirate you control enters, gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. Until end of turn, it gains haste and becomes a Pirate in addition to its other types.

Huatli's Raptor (War of the Spark)
Randy Vargas

Vigilance When this creature enters, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

The essence of Ixalan was never far from Huatli's heart.

Tale's End (Core Set 2020 Promos)
Randy Vargas

Counter target activated ability, triggered ability, or legendary spell.

"When you are gone, will anyone remember your story?" —Unknown

Erratic Visionary (Jumpstart)
Randy Vargas

{1}{U}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.

An Izzet experiment begins with a "what if," gets approved with a "why not," and concludes with a "eureka!"

Monk Class (Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Promos)
Randy Vargas

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) The second spell you cast each turn costs {1} less to cast. {W}{U}: Level 2 When this Class becomes level 2, return up to one target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. {1}{W}{U}: Level 3 At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of your library. For as long as it remains exiled, it has "You may cast this card from exile as long as you've cast another spell this turn."

Nadier's Nightblade (Modern Horizons 3)
Randy Vargas

Whenever a token you control leaves the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Checking around every corner doesn't help if you forget to look up.

Faerie Dreamthief (Wilds of Eldraine)
Randy Vargas

Flying When this creature enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.) {2}{B}, Exile this card from your graveyard: You draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Bearer of Memory (Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty)
Randy Vargas

{5}{G}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target enchantment creature. It gains trample until end of turn.

Members of the Living Historians don't simply chronicle the past; they embody it.

Take Vengeance (The List)
Randy Vargas

Destroy target tapped creature.

"Your death will be a balm, your passing a welcome revision, and all will sigh with peace to know of your demise."

First-Sphere Gargantua (March of the Machine Commander)
Randy Vargas

When this creature enters, you draw a card and you lose 1 life. Unearth {2}{B} ({2}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Volatile Fjord (Kaldheim)
Randy Vargas

({T}: Add {U} or {R}.) This land enters tapped.

"I watched with my own eyes as Jari Eagle-Caller fell from these cliffs, only to be snatched from the air by a giant bird!" —Iskene, Kannah storyteller

Primal Might (Core Set 2021)
Randy Vargas

Target creature you control gets +X/+X until end of turn. Then it fights up to one target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

Goryo's Vengeance (Ultimate Box Topper)
Randy Vargas

Return target legendary creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. Splice onto Arcane {2}{B} (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Frenzied Goblin (Foundations)
Randy Vargas

Whenever this creature attacks, you may pay {R}. If you do, target creature can't block this turn.

The upside to not thinking about the consequences is that you'll always surprise those who do.

Colossal Majesty (Commander 2019)
Randy Vargas

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control a creature with power 4 or greater, draw a card.

"Might doesn't just build empires. It protects them." —Inti, Sun Empire knight

Gathering Throng (Streets of New Capenna)
Randy Vargas

When this creature enters, you may search your library for any number of cards named Gathering Throng, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

A plus-one is simply not enough.

So Tiny (Jumpstart 2022)
Randy Vargas

Flash Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -2/-0. It gets -6/-0 instead as long as its controller has seven or more cards in their graveyard.

His sword sounded like a silver chime on the glass jar, and the sprite laughed with delight.

The Trickster-God's Heist (Kaldheim)
Randy Vargas

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — You may exchange control of two target creatures. II — You may exchange control of two target nonbasic, noncreature permanents that share a card type. III — Target player loses 3 life and you gain 3 life.

Through the Breach (Innistrad Remastered)
Randy Vargas

You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield. That creature gains haste. Sacrifice that creature at the beginning of the next end step. Splice onto Arcane {2}{R}{R} (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Ancestral Anger (Innistrad: Crimson Vow)
Randy Vargas

Target creature gains trample and gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is 1 plus the number of cards named Ancestral Anger in your graveyard. Draw a card.

"One vampire for every family member I've lost."

Light-Paws, Emperor's Voice (Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Promos)
Randy Vargas

Whenever an Aura you control enters, if you cast it, you may search your library for an Aura card with mana value less than or equal to that Aura and with a different name than each Aura you control, put that card onto the battlefield attached to Light-Paws, then shuffle.

Vow of Lightning (The List)
Randy Vargas

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2, has first strike, and can't attack you or planeswalkers you control.

"For all I have lost, for all who have fallen, I will render you to dust." —Jared Carthalion

Bushmeat Poacher (The List)
Randy Vargas

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice another creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness. Draw a card.

"If you've never feasted on Zagoth terror-pig, I got the best price you'll find."

Kabira Takedown (Zendikar Rising)
Randy Vargas

Embereth Shieldbreaker (Throne of Eldraine)
Randy Vargas

"Courage is the only shield I need."

Mausoleum Harpy (Rivals of Ixalan)
Randy Vargas

Flying Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.) Whenever another creature you control dies, if you have the city's blessing, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Portal of Sanctuary (Core Set 2020)
Randy Vargas

{1}, {T}: Return target creature you control and each Aura attached to it to their owners' hands. Activate only during your turn.

"If you need to disappear for a while, I know a place." —Bilivus, master archivist

Soul Diviner (War of the Spark Promos)
Randy Vargas

{T}, Remove a counter from an artifact, creature, land, or planeswalker you control: Draw a card.

As the Eternal's cold fingers tightened around his throat, Domri realized what kind of master he had rushed to serve.

Woodland Champion (Double Masters)
Randy Vargas

Whenever one or more tokens you control enter, put that many +1/+1 counters on this creature.

"Every footfall on the forest floor is a heartbeat sending strength into my veins."

Threats Undetected (Dominaria United)
Randy Vargas

Search your library for up to four creature cards with different powers and reveal them. An opponent chooses two of those cards. Shuffle the chosen cards into your library and put the rest into your hand.

Primal Might (Starter Commander Decks)
Randy Vargas

Target creature you control gets +X/+X until end of turn. Then it fights up to one target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

The shaman looked at the world through Ghalta's eyes and understood that everything else was his prey.

Kraul Stinger (War of the Spark)
Randy Vargas

Deathtouch

He listens to the sounds of battle filtering down from above, waiting for silence, waiting for his time to claim the streets.

Relive the Past (Murders at Karlov Manor)
Randy Vargas

Return up to one target artifact card, up to one target land card, and up to one target non-Aura enchantment card from your graveyard to the battlefield. They are 5/5 Elemental creatures in addition to their other types.

"Many have tried to subjugate Ravnica. All have failed. All will fail." —Museum of Ravnican History

Light-Paws, Emperor's Voice (Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty)
Randy Vargas

Whenever an Aura you control enters, if you cast it, you may search your library for an Aura card with mana value less than or equal to that Aura and with a different name than each Aura you control, put that card onto the battlefield attached to Light-Paws, then shuffle.

Thrasta, Tempest's Roar (Modern Horizons 2)
Randy Vargas

This spell costs {3} less to cast for each other spell cast this turn. Trample, haste Trample over planeswalkers (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the controller of the planeswalker it's attacking.) Thrasta has hexproof as long as it entered this turn.

Skemfar Avenger (Kaldheim)
Randy Vargas

Whenever another nontoken Elf or Berserker you control dies, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Stripped of their divinity, the elves of Skemfar channeled their rage and sorrow into bloody brutality.

Lethal Sting (Hour of Devastation)
Randy Vargas

As an additional cost to cast this spell, put a -1/-1 counter on a creature you control. Destroy target creature.

Initiates once believed defeat was the worst fate possible—a sentiment they quickly abandoned.

Emmara, Soul of the Accord (Guilds of Ravnica Promos)
Randy Vargas

Whenever Emmara becomes tapped, create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token with lifelink.

Monk Class (Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Promos)
Randy Vargas

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) The second spell you cast each turn costs {1} less to cast. {W}{U}: Level 2 When this Class becomes level 2, return up to one target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. {1}{W}{U}: Level 3 At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of your library. For as long as it remains exiled, it has "You may cast this card from exile as long as you've cast another spell this turn."

Skeleton Archer (Core Set 2020)
Randy Vargas

When this creature enters, it deals 1 damage to any target.

"Soul, flesh, even eyes—none of these are strictly necessary for deadly precision." —Modriss of Zargoth Fen

Charming Prince (Throne of Eldraine)
Randy Vargas

When this creature enters, choose one — • Scry 2. • You gain 3 life. • Exile another target creature you own. Return it to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step.

Essence Infusion (Strixhaven: School of Mages)
Randy Vargas

Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature. It gains lifelink until end of turn.

"I'd say it's still a fair fight—now my friend is about the size of your ego."

Through the Breach (Ultimate Box Topper)
Randy Vargas

You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield. That creature gains haste. Sacrifice that creature at the beginning of the next end step. Splice onto Arcane {2}{R}{R} (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Malevolent Noble (Throne of Eldraine)
Randy Vargas

{2}, Sacrifice an artifact or another creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

He has slain a dozen witches, luring each with a promise of fresh children's bones.

Mirror Image (Core Set 2019)
Randy Vargas

You may have this creature enter as a copy of a creature you control.

The life of a shapeshifter is one of constant change.

Elvish Fury (Modern Horizons)
Randy Vargas

Buyback {4} (You may pay an additional {4} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Fail to respect the forest and you will fertilize it.

Sparkhunter Masticore (Core Set 2021)
Randy Vargas

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Protection from planeswalkers {1}: This creature deals 1 damage to target planeswalker. {3}: This creature gains indestructible until end of turn.

Caldaia Strongarm (Streets of New Capenna)
Randy Vargas

When this creature enters, put two +1/+1 counters on target creature. Blitz {3}{G} (If you cast this spell for its blitz cost, it gains haste and "When this creature dies, draw a card." Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.)

Mist-Syndicate Naga (Modern Horizons)
Randy Vargas

Ninjutsu {2}{U} ({2}{U}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.) Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, create a token that's a copy of this creature.

Frilled Mystic (Ravnica Remastered)
Randy Vargas

Flash When this creature enters, you may counter target spell.

"Your arrival was expected...and unwelcome."

High-Rise Sawjack (Foundations Jumpstart)
Randy Vargas

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) Whenever this creature blocks a creature with flying, this creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

Slicing girders, rescuing trapped workers, killing gigantic rust flies—one tool does it all!

Elvish Dreadlord (Commander Legends)
Randy Vargas

Deathtouch When this creature dies, non-Elf creatures get -3/-3 until end of turn. Encore {5}{B}{B} ({5}{B}{B}, Exile this card from your graveyard: For each opponent, create a token copy that attacks that opponent this turn if able. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.)

Force of Vigor (Modern Horizons)
Randy Vargas

If it's not your turn, you may exile a green card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Destroy up to two target artifacts and/or enchantments.

The vines overgrew the construct, snapping gears and soaking up aether.

Apprentice Necromancer (Commander 2017)
Randy Vargas

{B}, {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste. At the beginning of the next end step, sacrifice it.

A mage willing to dedicate his life to his craft.

Bogardan Dragonheart (Modern Horizons)
Randy Vargas

Sacrifice another creature: Until end of turn, this creature becomes a Dragon with base power and toughness 4/4, flying, and haste.

A hunger to soar must be sated.

Thrashing Brontodon (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan)
Randy Vargas

{1}, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

"I suppose we'll just hope those ancient monoliths lost to our people for centuries weren't particularly important." —Toxayac, Sun Empire historian

Danse Macabre (Forgotten Realms Commander)
Randy Vargas

Each player sacrifices a nontoken creature of their choice. Roll a d20 and add the toughness of the creature you sacrificed this way. 1—14 | Return a creature card put into a graveyard this way to the battlefield under your control. 15+ | Return up to two creature cards put into graveyards this way to the battlefield under your control.

Hurkyl, Master Wizard (The Brothers' War Promos)
Randy Vargas

At the beginning of your end step, if you've cast a noncreature spell this turn, reveal the top five cards of your library. For each card type among noncreature spells you've cast this turn, you may put a card of that type from among the revealed cards into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Runic Armasaur (Core Set 2019 Promos)
Randy Vargas

Whenever an opponent activates an ability of a creature or land that isn't a mana ability, you may draw a card.

The Sun Empire's most sacred sites are protected by more than prayers.

Season of Growth (The List)
Randy Vargas

Whenever a creature you control enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) Whenever you cast a spell that targets a creature you control, draw a card.

"Awake, and lift your faces to the sun."

Mage Duel (Strixhaven: School of Mages)
Randy Vargas

This spell costs {2} less to cast if you've cast another instant or sorcery spell this turn. Target creature you control gets +1/+2 until end of turn. Then it fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

"Remember the rules. No spells to the face!"

Erratic Visionary (War of the Spark)
Randy Vargas

{1}{U}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.

An Izzet experiment begins with a "what if," gets approved with a "why not," and concludes with a "eureka!"

Woodland Champion (Jumpstart 2022)
Randy Vargas

Whenever one or more tokens you control enter, put that many +1/+1 counters on this creature.

"Every footfall on the forest floor is a heartbeat sending strength into my veins."

Speaker of the Heavens (Core Set 2021)
Randy Vargas

Vigilance, lifelink (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap. Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) {T}: Create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying. Activate only if you have at least 7 life more than your starting life total and only as a sorcery.

Exhilarating Elocution (Strixhaven: School of Mages)
Randy Vargas

Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature you control. Other creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

His words poured forth on waves of golden light, scouring all fear from his audience's hearts and minds.